Martin van Bruinessen

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Martin van Bruinessen is a Dutch anthropologist and author, who has published a number of publications on Kurdish, Indonesian, Turkish, Persian matters, and also on aspects of Islam as a whole.

He was born in 1946 in Schoonhoven in the Netherlands.

He taught the sociology of religion at the State Institute of Islamic Studies of Yogyakarta, Indonesia and has been teaching Kurdish and Turkish studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands since 1994.

He also wrote and researched some issues of the early stages of Islam in Java

[edit] External links

• Personal web pages of Martin van Bruinessen at Utrecht University
• Martin van Bruinessen - Downloadable papers and articles.
• Martin van Bruinessen - Publications by Date.